A "Purple" Map of the 2024 US Presidential Election
(This is Part 1, a single state.)
![[A screenshot of a red/blue/purple voting map, by precinct,
of New Mexico, with a popup showing details for one precinct]](https://shallowsky.com/blog/images/maps/voting/2024-nm-purplemap.jpg)
I went looking for a "purple map" of the 2024 presidential election
— one of those maps that colors areas from red to blue depending
on how they voted.
And I couldn't find one! Well, I found lots of JPEGs and PDFs and such, but I couldn't find a single map that was interactive and let me zoom in and actually see the county-level data I was interested in.
Getting Data
It's not for lack of data. I'm happy to report that this year,
searching for 2024 presidential election county data
got several useful hits. I settled on the
MIT Election Lab data,
which has a GitHub
repository with a bunch of state-level files (that, weirdly, are all
zipped, so you have to unzip each one individually).
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